Meanwhile to tickle the right side of the brain, there are numerous line drawings of each of the popular Cars characters that are available from various internet sites. A printer and scanner if available can translate these into hours and hours of creative silence. Copies can be duplicated in as many times as the child wishes to enjoy the pursuit, perhaps using and changing colors on the same picture as he pleases. These same pages can later on, with some help from mom or dad, be cut out and turned into an improvised jigsaw puzzle. And while on the subject, the same cut outs can be used as wall decors for the child's room, or as colorful covers for their notebooks and folders.

The benefit of making your own puzzles is that you get to choose the topic. Are you obsessed with Star Trek? Then make your own word search full of your favorite Star Trek words and hunt them all down! Is your partner a geologist? Why not make him a puzzle full of geological words as a random present? It's sure to make them smile! Or perhaps your child has recently become obsessed with dinosaurs? You could create a puzzle specially for them filled with words they will recognize, and add in a few they don't yet know to help encourage them to learn more!